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version of the Monero blockchain used to test new features before they are introduced to the mainnet where Monero holds real value and mistakes are more costly.

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Understanding the structure of a Monero transaction

So I am trying to understand how Monero works under the hood, and I was looking at the transaction below. (If you would like to see it in your own daemon, switch to testnet and just type print_tx…
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Why was `always-confirm-transfers = 1` not the default in version 0.10.0.0?

Let's say you just sent a transaction in monero-wallet-cli and you decide to copy that line and paste it in the daemon for whatever reason. Maybe you are thinking about editing its value or payment ID or something else entirely. If you happen to…
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Creating and Splitting Transactions

I left a node mining the testnet for a few days and got a bunch of coinbase transactions (close to 1200). I tried doing sweep_all [my address] but that failed: Error: payment id has invalid format, expected 16 of 64 character hex string: [my…
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What is the Monero testnet? How can I participate in it?

I've seen people talk about the Monero testnet, but I don't know what they mean. What is testnet? What advantages come with using testnet? Finally, how do I get involved?
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How can I assist in testing RingCT on the Monero testnet?

I hear that RingCT is currently fully deployed on the Monero testnet, and that we can assist with stress testing the protocol by creating a testnet account ourselves. I created my own testnet wallet and had one of the Monero developers send me some…
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Error Message When Running Monero Core GUI

I created a private testnet, mined 60 blocks, and successfully transferred between two simplewallets. I'd like to transfer from a simplewallet to the monero core gui wallet for testing purposes. When I launch monero-core it says "Connected" under…
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Is there a way to connect the Monero Core (GUI wallet) to a remote testnet node?

I'm trying to make a liveUSB so people can play with the Monero Core GUI, but I don't want them to download the whole testnet blockchain first just to try it out. Maybe something like... monero-core --daemon-address arg
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Small bug with `sweep_all`

I am experimenting with the testnet wallet, so I did a sweep_all to my own address to see how it worked. And so this line came up: Sweeping 0.000000000000 for a total fee of 0.048000000000. Is this okay? (Y/Yes/N/No) I thought it was strange given…
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Can I obtain Monero testnet coins without mining?

Is there an easy way to obtain free Monero testnet coins without needing to start mining on testnet? The goal is to just make 2 testnet wallet addresses, either from the CLI or the GUI, and send some coins back and forth, to get familiar with the…
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Is Monero the only CryptoNote based coin with a public testnet?

To the best of my knowledge Monero only has two forks, AEON and BipCoin AEON was forked from Monero prior to the introduction of its testnet function although its lead developer plans to change that as part of the AEON roadmap There is not a…
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I have the impression blockchain reorgs are more prevalent on testnet?

They also seem more significant if they happen, e.g. I just see REORGANIZE on height: 839127 of 839203 in the log file, which is quite a number of blocks. Can anyone comment whether these observations are a correct / typical (or an exception)? If…
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Problem transfering to Monero address copied from SE comment using monero-wallet-cli. `Error: wrong address`

I was trying to send some testnet coins to myself to an old address that I posted in a comment in this post. You can see that xmr_eric was successful in sending me some coins at the time. So today I tried to copy the address from that comment I made…
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Is public testnet for RingCT planned prior to its release?

Now that a pull request to merge RingCT has appeared in GitHub are there plans to create a public testnet? If so how would someone participate and help test the code?
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Why are do some addresses on the Monero testnet begin with '9' and others with 'A'?

I thought the prefix of a cryptonote address was fixed. For example AEON uses a Wm. And Monero a 4. But sometimes the Monero testnet has addresses that begin with a 9 and sometimes they begin with an A. Why is this? Example - these are both valid…
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How to make an integrated address based on a subaddress?

Monero is getting subaddresses soon. How are integrated addresses built upon those? I'm trying the standard algorithm, using netbyte 0x35 (I'm on testnet) but the wallet rejects them as invalid. Example: subaddress:…
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